10. Conservtives don't get the basic concept underlying

most humor. It's alien to them.

When the king slips and lands ass-first in a mud puddle it is funny. Why? The gap between his pretentions and the actuality of being a human being sitting in a mud puddle. The conservative is outraged at this defilement of the dignity of the king. The liberal (or peasant) finds this immensely funny because it reinforces notions of common humanity and neatly deflates the king's claim to higher status.

Comedy is about nothing if not puncturing pretentions. Us poor folks don't have many pretentions to puncture. We're too busy dodging the mud puddles we are all too familiar with.